Santé au travail - Santé et environnement

Can Vet J. 2018 Jul; 59(7): 749–750. .Trisha Dowling

In the last few decades, society has faced many complex global problems that call for innovative solutions, real change and a new approach to leadership. More and more business leaders are embracing mindfulness and empathy techniques to better understand the challenges they face, how to address them and how to lead teams through necessary transformations.

Emerging scientific fields such as social and contemplative neurosciences have produced promising findings that may help inform and tackle such challenges, especially in the areas of brain plasticity.

In her OWP liVe keynote address “Plasticity of the social brain: training mind and heart to a more caring society”, Professor Tania Singer – Scientific Head of the Max Planck Society’s Social Neuroscience Lab – explained how the development of different aspects of our mind could transform economies and build healthier societies.

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As part of the Creating a Compassionate World interview series, Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, President of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (compassionatemind.co.uk), interviews Professor Tania Singer

Continuous exposure to the suffering and death of patients produces certain syndromes such as compassion fatigue in health professionals. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect and the effectiveness of interventions based on mindfulness, aimed at training or cultivating compassion or self-compassion in compassion fatigue, self-compassion, compassion, and compassion satisfaction of health professionals. A systematic review is reported in line with the PRISMA guideline and was registered in PROSPERO. The PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO and CINAHL databases were used. Interventions based on compassion training or cultivation were selected, aimed at health professionals. A meta-analysis was performed using a random-effects model. The effect size and hetereogeneity of the studies were calculated. Eight articles were selected. Among the programmes for the cultivation of compassion we highlight Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), Mindfulness and Self-Compassion (MSC), Compassionate Meditation (CM), and Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM). The interventions decreased compassion fatigue and increased compassion, self-compassion, and compassion satisfaction in healthcare professionals. Compassion fatigue in healthcare professionals is due to a deficit in empathic and compassionate skills. Health systems should incorporate programmes based on the cultivation of compassion and self-compassion in order to improve the work conditions and quality of life of health professionals.

La compassion, un antidote à la peur?

Dans cette conférence de Tania Singer, docteure en psychologie et neuroscientifique, celle-ci nous explique l'importance d'hormones telles que l'ocytocine, et de sentiments tels que la compassion, comme antidote à la peur.

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